Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head - Manual (Page 241)

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This feature creates a spare drive only. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical drives
and spare drives at the same time.
This action requires Super User or Power User privileges.
To create a spare drive:
1. Click the Storage tab.
2. Click the Spare Drive icon.
3. Click the Create Spare Drive button.
4. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as required:
• Check the Revertible box if you want a revertible spare drive.
A revertible spare drive returns to its spare drive assignment after you replace the failed
physical drive in the disk array and run the Transition function.
• Global – Can be used by any disk array
• Dedicated to newly created disk array – The disk array you are now creating.
5. In the Select Physical Drives diagram, click a drive to choose it for your spare.
The ID number for chosen drive appears in the field below the diagram.
6. Click the Submit button.
If you are done creating spare drives, click the Finish button.
To create another spare drive, click the Create More button.